Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0af29834d44aa09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-06-06 18:50:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 3266d2a7c2b90338daef6a575a61b05e SHA-1: 245fb6d704650883d140c46a1a75c62abc61b5d3 SHA-256: d0af29834d44aa091274fd725a0b8286f25aa77984fce601aa9289ed683ffdf1
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting and exhibiting characteristics of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or spamming operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious or spam content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://midufefew.ru/123?utm_term=swot+bivariate+strategy+matrix+template PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419630/normal_605cb139ac3aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4418587/normal_5fdd67c70adc9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407813/normal_5fef4b12ba8af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagusidenoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134902343/rateruvirisul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419437/normal_604137fe21755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mopomavimixefor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164117/9912036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanolidades.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695759/80c7ac8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kepelawurolunuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017158/jolewawavulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zitipijasidigor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874434/betivujelekip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409396/normal_60182c0eaaf75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kajilavenusifo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683330/3b825ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neziraninev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134502601/puvopewefewe-xowotazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mubaxuru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134693734/fijebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/add7f5f1-379a-4bcc-aba5-2802bbaecf69/cindy_trimm_commanding_your_morning_quotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7c6331f-940f-41d7-a7d0-c32d45bf120e/how_to_adjust_flame_on_gas_water_heater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/46536d3e-a1e9-473b-87c9-9734c6801f27/vadedukuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6a735b9-272c-4d36-9069-ed5fd43d8741/zemiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/256260eb-ec9b-4b61-be68-94e39e3a9418/is_international_marketing_group_legit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6ab47349-c404-4404-a9a6-7b7dca3591c4/star_trek_2009_movie_streaming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e7150bc7-2ef0-43bf-b6c3-4598d1c27320/12080771571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b3cdd7c-060f-4c06-a957-8901f0b25bef/69554603709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d6f38d59-597f-4e70-8e4d-1ccd5f5436c5/dell_precision_m4700_sound_driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB68 5704 bytes
SHA-256: 3eaa6760da48355beafd158eacc4c4ed47bd5e9947549736e7a4675c862c780f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fedb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDB 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 18da8167bfa5c304364f3dd261aa32149b18fea406b1473e14d6ebd6ead4cfe6